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Five conditions for experiencing poetry: on Shahin Parhami’s Every Angel is Terrifying
2021
Overview
The power of poetry lies in its capacity to move people by engendering joy, sadness or anger via the images that it summons. Since in film it is light that constitutes images, one should first of all understand this poetic power of affection in relation to the color schemes of the sequences. The images turn black and white and the stare of the dog meets the face of the poet sleeping, then opening his eyes to an apartment window overlooking the city at dawn: a landscape of high-rises under a foggy sky with mountains in the background. Color sequences assemble images of forests, rivers, seashores and ruins, accompanied by a dramatic soundtrack and the poet’s voice-over reciting his translations of Rilke. Returning at night to the same apartment window shown at the beginning of the film, the camera frames two burning red candles while the voice of the poet dialogues in hushed, intimate and sometimes joking tones with a shadow figure (an angel?).
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Donato Totaro
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